Saint Quadratus

Saint Quadratus, (flourished 2nd century, ; feast day May 26), the earliest known Apologist for Christianity.

With only a fragment of his Apology for Christianity still extant, preserved in the Ecclesiastical History of the 4th-century scholar Eusebius of Caesarea, Quadratus has not been clearly identified. Addressed from Asia Minor to the Roman emperor Hadrian during a persecution either in 124 or 129, the work is thought to have been written by a disciple of the early 2nd-century Eastern Church fathers Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp of Smyrna. The 5th-century biblical scholar Jerome erroneously identified the author with Bishop Quadratus of Athens, ... (100 of 271 words)